The top seeded pair of Rupesh Kumar and Sanave Thomas had to fight hard before getting past Indonesian pair of Wifqi Windarto and Afiat Yuris Wirawan 21-16, 20-22, 21-17 in the quarterfinals of the men’s doubles.
They will face Malaysians third-seeds Teik Chai Gan and Bin Shen Tan for a place in the final. In women’s doubles, Aparna Balan and Shruti Kurian beat Kiwi pair of Michelle KY Chan and Rachel Hindley 21-7, 21-14 for a place in the last-four where they will take on top-seed Tsz Ka Chan and Ying Suet Tse of Hong Kong.
Aparna, though failed to make it a double as she and partner Arun Vishnu went down 14-21, 11-21 to Tontowi Ahmad and Richi Puspita Dilli of Indonesia in mixed doubles quarters. The other Indian men’s doubles pair of Akshay Dewalkar and Jishnu Sanyal went down 8-21, 19-21 to fourth-seed Hirokatsu Hashimoto and Noriyasu Hirata of Japan in the quarterfinals. Anjali Kalita and Jyotshna Polavarapu lost 14-21, 18-21 to the Vietnam-Czech Republic duo of Nguyen Nhung Le Ngoc and Kristina Ludikova in the other last-eight women’s doubles encounter. India’s campaign in men’s singles also ended in the quarterfinal stage with seventh-seed Anand Pawar losing 17-21, 21-11, 12-21 to Kazushi Yamada of Japan.
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